I like Misty and Im sure she has had her challenges but why do people feel the need to overlook the fact that she has a white mother and is in fact biracial

I’d seen her dance a few times and didn’t realize she was black until I saw a still photo of her. The lights really make her skin look even lighter.

I like the response, “she was rescued by dance,” like there are magical dance fairies flying around to rescue indigent children by providing free professional-level dance training throughout their childhoods.

“Conventionally attractive, racially ambiguous woman from wealthy background overcomes...things”

Not to mention rape is much more about exerting power over a victim than the “fuckability” of said victim. You don’t have to be beautiful or even conventionally attractive to be a rape victim. Damon Wayans can fuck right off.

Attractiveness, as subjective as it may be, should not even be a thought when discussing rape. There is no rape-happens-only-to-beautiful-people rule here. That he can say that with a straight face and the interviewer doesn’t immediately shut him down, is the worst part of this interview imo.

Let’s not fall into an assessment of who is or isn’t rapeable. Damon’s frame for this is fucked up. We don’t have to use it.

Some commenters are disappointing me. By saying things like “but this one WAS attractive” is perpetuating the extremely hurtful falsehood that only attractive women can be assaulted.

I will not judge someone for how they heal what others broke. She's not hurting anyone. I wish her well.

Lesson one of gun safety: all guns are always loaded. Even if you unloaded them yourself. Even if you checked. Even if you just saw the thing assembled for the first time in its life. It is loaded.

This needs approximately 10000 more stars. It’s so insistently, gratingly tone-deaf to repeatedly say “do it the easy way, and if you don’t do it the easy way it’s because you’re stupid” in the face of differences in preference, family demands, religion, cultural expectations, etc etc et fucking cetra. Tell you what,…

OMG commenters, there is a point at which you have to accept that when you read an article on a WEDDING BLOG it is most likely going to be about a fairly mainstream wedding, with lots of guests and dinner and open bar and a white dress. You are not making an Important Point by coming here and saying “whatevs you don’t…

I’m a wedding vendor (a florist) and the answer is actually, kind of, #6. Every bride (yes, even the lentil brides) has a vision for her wedding, and we have no idea what that is until we talk to you. Like your example of 8 succulent boutonnieres— off the top of my head, I’d quote you $45/each. But if I told you that…

Oh, that makes sense! I adore Elementary, and she never looked pregnant during Season 3, but sometimes they can slip that by. Mazel Tov, Lucy! (Also, everyone should watch Elementary. It’s like Sherlock, but smarter and with respect for women.)

No, it’s not easy to trace back one’s Irish roots to what ever small village in Ireland. I’ve tried it. (I’m Irish American-Puerto Rican) The Irish didn’t keep records like they do in the States. If your family name wasn’t written down by the church or your ancestors weren’t in jail at some point, you are out of luck…

Me too. The overall sentiment here ranges from amused sympathy to outright adoration. I’m pretty sire she showed up on a thread about Miley and Marc from last week, under a different screen name. I’m going to try to find it. She’s obviously troubled, but also creative and smart.

I don’t want your alpaca life, dad! *flips hair*

I played through the original Crysis I think five times, and I managed to slog my way through Crysis 2...

2015 UPDATE: We no longer need to hear everything white people want to say.